Short Books: 92 books
by Emma Craigie, Jonathan Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The Sunday Times Bestseller
On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos...
Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move - concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis - and the civilian population is fast running out of food. The man who orchestrated...
The Imperial Tea Party
Family, politics and betrayal – the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The British and Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs’ tragic end in 1918. In The Imperial Tea Party, Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters, which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe and beyond.
Russia and Britain...
Success Against the Odds
Five Lessons in How To Achieve the Impossible: The Story of Teach First
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Ten years ago, when American management consultant Brett Wigdortz told his employers at McKinsey that he was leaving to "found an organisation designed to address educational disadvantage in Britain", they laughed. He was 28 years, with no experience of either public policy or teaching;...
Seasonal Suicide Notes
My life as it is lived
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2010
The most brilliantly funny and genuinely thought-provoking book of the year.' Sunday Times For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis has been entertaining his friends with an annual letter, in which he records details of the joys and frustrations of his life as it is actually lived. Updated with...
Ghoul Brittania
Notes from a Haunted Isle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
INCLUDES THE THREE BEST GHOST STORIES EVER Who among us, lying in bed at night, listening to the noises of the house – that creak in the stairs, the clock ticking away in the empty hall – has not experienced a momentary chill, that first tremor of fear? What is it about Britain, asks...
Wenger
The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Arsène Wenger has made a science of football management and turned his players into artists. A surprise appointment at Arsenal FC when he arrived in 1996 and now the most established manager in English football, Wenger managed to convert a sceptical, entrenched footballing culture to his modern way...
The Old Boys Network
A Headmaster's Diaries 1972-1986
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
John Rae was one of the most charismatic and controversial figures in British education. His reputation as a great reformer was forged during his 16 years as headmaster of Westminster School, in the 1970s and early 1980s. And his candid account of that turbulent period recorded at the time in handwritten...
Strictly Ballroom
Tales from the Dancefloor
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
At the age of 76, Diana Melly took up ballroom dancing
She was suffering from bereavement, having recently lost her husband George to dementia, and was told that dancing might help. It has done much more than that, opening up a whole new chapter in her life.
In this disarmingly funny...
by Jonathan Mayo
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November 1963. From Dallas nightclub reporter Tony Zoppi, who found himself carrying the president's casket; Secret Service...
I Know You Are Going to be Happy
A Story of Love and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A young man pushed forward by family expectations, a young woman pulled back ... A wedding at a fashionable London church in 1948 between two brilliant journalists, deeply in love - the ambitious and sophisticated son of a famous Fleet Street editor, and a beautiful twenty-one-year old girl from a...
Where the Hell Have You Been?
Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone, he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the Allied Commander...
Steve: Unwanted
How a Bad Boy Came Good...An Inspiring True Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Abandoned by his mother, abused by his dad, bullied at school ... Childhood wasn't easy for Steve Walker. By the age of 23, he had become one of London's most notorious drug-dealers - nickname "Psycho" - with a fast car, a trail of broken relationships, and a life-threatening drug habit...
The Hot Topic
A life-changing look at the Change of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
There has never been a better time to be a menopausal woman. Technology is such that 60 really is the new 40 (or even 35)...
But, for Christa D'Souza, some nagging questions remain... What is the point of us now that we are officially biologically irrelevant? Are hormones safe, even if you've...
by Deborah Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Deborah Hutton's discovery that the niggling cough which had been troubling her for a couple of months was actually an aggressive lung cancer marked the beginning of a brand-new learning curve - a personal odyssey that taught her to let go of her super-competent I-can-handle-it-myself persona and...